Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Let us Bolshevize our party to efficiently wield the two
basic weapons of People’s Army and United Front to lead the revolution
to victory ! Let us strengthen and expand our mass base by adhering firmly to class line and mass line !! Let us grasp in depth the two Marxist principles ‘No
revolution without a revolutionary party’ and ‘People are the makers of
history’ !!! Call of the CC, CPI (Maoist) to the entire rank and file to
celebrate with revolutionary enthusiasm the 9th Anniversary of our party
from September 21 to 27, 2013
Dear comrades, We are about to celebrate the 9th Anniversary of our
glorious new Party on September 21st this year. This is all the more
significant this year as our preparations to celebrate ten glorious
years of our new party also start with this. September 21, 2004 is a
significant day for the New Democratic Revolution (NDR) in India and
also for the World Socialist Revolution (WSR) as this day launched a
single center of guidance for the revolutionary movement in India after
overcoming more than three decades of ups and downs in this process. On
this occasion let us pay humble homage with great respect to the
builders of our glorious Party, great leaders of the Indian Revolution,
martyrs and our beloved comrades CM and KC and the thousands of brave
fighters who laid down their lives in the course of the NDR, carrying
forward the glorious legacy of Naxalbari.
After the 8th Anniversary of our Party, all through the past year the
counter-revolutionary ‘Operation Green Hunt- phase 2’ (War on People)
raged relentlessly wreaking havoc throughout our movement areas. In the
course of fighting back this offensive by the Indian ruling classes and
defending the people, nearly 150 of our beloved comrades have laid down
their lives. They selflessly fought with great courage and bravery by
putting their lives at stake to defend and advance the People’s War.
A majority of them had laid down their invaluable lives while
fiercely resisting attacks by armed forces and the state-sponsored
vigilante gangs. Among the martyrs, comrades Ganti Prasadam, Mahita,
Juvvaji Venkata Subbaiah, Aluri Bhujanga Rao were veteran comrades of
our party. Ganti Prasadam’s was a state-sponsored murder and the other
three comrades died due to old age and other problems. North Telangana
Special Zone Committee member comrade Sudhakar was killed in a fierce
battle with the enemy’s special forces. RCM comrade Prashant of BJ-North
Chhattisgarh Special Area was murdered in a joint CoBRA-TPC attack.
In Dandakaranya (DK) senior Divisional Committee level technical
department comrade Aman died due to ill-health while another DVCM Indira
died due to snake bite. DVC/ZC (Zonal Committee) level comrades
Dharmendra Yadav, Prafulla Yadav and Mithilesh Yadav of Bihar, Sankar of
DK and Pushpa of NT were martyred while resisting enemy attacks. Tens
of revolutionary masses, members of revolutionary mass organizations,
RPCs and people’s militia were massacred by the armed forces in
indiscriminate firings (like in Edesmetta in DK) and fake encounters in
all our movement areas. Let us vow to carry forward the aims and fulfill
the dreams of these selfless martyrs by defending, expanding and
intensifying the people’s war.
Let us imbibe and spread the ideals of our great martyrs and inspire
the masses to follow their path for the liberation of humankind. In the
past one year, several brave fighters were martyred while valiantly
fighting the enemy forces during the course of New Democratic
Revolutions in countries such as Philippines, Turkey and Bangladesh etc.
Hundreds of agitators and people apart from the working class in the
imperialist countries have laid down their invaluable lives in the
struggles for liberation from class exploitation and oppression, for
national liberation and for democracy in several countries all over the
world. Our CC is humbly paying homage to all of them on the occasion of
the 9th Anniversary of our Party.
It pledges to fulfill the aspirations of the martyrs of WSR by
fighting with determination till our goals are achieved. On this
occasion our CC is sending warmest revolutionary greetings to entire
party ranks; PLGA commanders and fighters; comrades of Revolutionary
People’s Committees (RPCs) and mass organizations; to the thousands of
comrades and revolutionary masses who have opened another battle-front
in the prisons in the country; to revolutionary masses in our struggle
areas and all over our country; to revolutionary well-wishers and the
Marxist-Leninist/Maoist parties in various countries that stood in great
support of the Indian revolutionary movement particularly in the past
one year holding high the red banner of proletarian internationalism.
Let us now briefly look at some of the important changes in the
objective conditions that have occurred in the world and our country and
also in our subjective condition so that we can concretely formulate
our immediate tasks till the next party anniversary in their backdrop.

International situation
The world financial crisis is still devastating the capitalist world
with no signs of recovery. It is concentrated in Europe and no number of
austerity measures or bailouts are able to save the EU countries from
getting bogged down further in it. All kinds of exercises done by G-8,
G-20, IMF, WB, WTO and several regional economic formations have failed
to bail the imperialists out of their crisis this year too. Worker’s
struggles against job cuts and retrenchments are rocking several EU
countries. Unemployment, ruthless cuts in subsidies and social spending
are pushing millions upon millions of people further into miserable
conditions which are leading to their agitations.
To overcome this crisis the imperialist world is taking up austerity
measures, state spending to provide employment, increasing taxes,
reducing significantly the expenditure of the government, increasing
funding to the capitalists and increasing the loot of people and natural
resources in backward countries. The people in imperialist countries
are increasingly facing unemployment and underemployment, lack of job
guarantee, lack of safe drinking water, inflation, housing problem,
reduction in government spending on education and health care, migration
and lack of democratic rights.
These conditions have worsened further since the financial crisis of
2008. In backward countries too similar conditions are prevailing if not
at an even worse rate. They are facing extreme poverty levels and
hunger. The huge gap between the rich and the poor is rapidly increasing
to an unprecedented level. They are facing migration both internal and
external. All remaining restrictions since 1991 are being lifted by the
compradors of backward countries for finance capital and MNCs leading to
extreme neo-colonial exploitation and control.
The comprador ruling classes have shamelessly taken up the slogan
that no development is possible without FDI. With no restrictions to
stop the juggernaut of financial capital due to the collusion of the
compradors, the third world people are getting crushed ruthlessly under
its iron heels. The recent devaluation of currency in India, Turkey,
Brazil, Bangladesh and several other backward countries is putting their
economies in turmoil. The much hyped high growth rates in India went
into recession.
The ‘decoupling’ theory puffed up by the ruling elite tried to
hoodwink the people of our country about the immunity of the Indian
economy to the world financial crisis. Now all that stands busted with
everybody in the government talking about the ‘bad shape of the
economy’. The position of Brazil and South Africa in BRICS is no better.
In India and these countries exports fell, inflation rose, currencies
depreciated, growth rates fell and manufacturing sector is facing a lot
of problems, not to mention the much talked about monster of crisis in
current account deficit, particularly in India. Especially the rupee is
having a free fall and inflation is skyrocketing.
The imperialists are portraying the devaluation of currencies
vis-à-vis the dollar as its recovery. They are saying that US economy
has recovered in the past two quarters and are showing this as an
indicator. The other solution opted by the imperialists to overcome
their crisis is to resort to curbing of democratic rights in their
countries, encouragement of right-wing reactionary forces and waging
wars of aggression. Wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, attack
on Libya, French invasion of Mali, drone attacks in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Yemen etc, unending Israeli pounding of Palestine, threat to
attack Iran and North Korea and the recent ‘impatience’ of Obama and
Francois Hollande to attack Syria are some glaring examples. Imperialist
interventions that led to civil wars and internecine wars in backward
countries are numerous.
Neo-colonial exploitation, control, oppression, intervention and
aggression by imperialist countries of the backward countries have
devastated their economies and the lives of the people in more ways than
one. No sector is left untouched or unaffected in social, economic,
political and cultural spheres. Fundamental contradictions in the world
have intensified in the past one year. The principal contradiction
between imperialism and the oppressed nations and peoples of the world
intensified with various kinds of anti- imperialist struggles waged by
the people all over the world including those against the countless
ill-effects of neo-liberal economic policies. These struggles cover
various aspects in the economic, social, political, cultural and
ecological spheres. With the working class and the middle classes
increasingly taking to the streets the contradiction between the
capitalists and the working class has intensified further.
Economically, politically and strategically the inter-imperialist
contradiction has come to the fore as never before since they started
adopting the neo-liberal policies. This was clearly seen in the
contention for domination of West Asia during the recent ‘Syria crisis’
with Russia supported by China firmly putting its foot down to oppose
the US backed western imperialist aggression on Syria.
Brazil saw an unprecedented scale of people’s upsurge in June 2013
against its hosting the 2014 football World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympic
Games. The people reeling under the horrible effects of the
pro-imperialist pro-rich neo-liberal economic policies of the government
since decades poured into the streets. In February, tens of thousands
of Greeks took part in a general strike, as more than half the
four-million workforce renewed their protest over austerity measures
concerning pensions, emergency taxes, the high cost of life and to get
rid of the bailout deal as international lenders were due in the capital
to discuss the next installment of a bailout. There have been general
strikes all over Europe and militant protests have become commonplace.
Despite repressive measures such as invoking emergency law, strikes are
picking up.
In Egypt Morsi, though a compromising force was unceremoniously
ousted and was put in jail by the military backed by the US and Hosni
Mubarak supporters. Massacres of people protesting this ouster and the
military regime are taking place on a daily basis. In almost all the
other Arab countries too where dictatorial rulers were toppled in
democratic upsurges in the recent past, imperialist puppets or
compromising forces took over and the democratic aspirations of the
people remained unfulfilled. So the people are once again forced to take
to the streets to fight for genuine democracy.
These phenomena are serving as an eye-opener to the Arab people and
more and more people are realizing that taking the support of
imperialist countries in any manner would be ultimately detrimental to
their interests. Reformism has become the most dangerous ideological and
political trend in the world and in our country. As financial crisis
intensified, people’s unrest amplified, struggles broke out and
pseudo-democracy got increasingly exposed by the day, the imperialists
and the compradors are bringing this forth on a huge scale. This is
advocated and implemented both by the ruling classes, their funded
organizations, social democratic and revisionist forces. In our country
the countless schemes brought forth by the central and state governments
are a glaring example of this trend.
These are being implemented in all states all over the country while
along with these Civic Action Program by the state armed forces is being
vigorously pushed in states where our movement is strong. Similar
programs are taken up in all countries where Maoist movements are
present. Various acts enacted by the parliament recently regarding food
security, land acquisition, hawkers etc should be seen as part of this
reformist trend. The various funded organizations – funded both by the
governments and the MNCs have spread their network all over the world.
Some of them are implementing the lopsided development model of the
imperialists while some are participating in struggles and working to
confine them to a reformist agenda. All kinds of reformist forces are
shamelessly supporting all the neo-liberal economic policies the ruling
parties are bringing. They are supporting the repressive measures of the
governments when people are revolting against them.
Where they are in power they are behaving like neo-fascists in
suppressing the people. We have to ideologically and politically expose
the hollow and deceptive nature of the reforms sponsored by the
imperialists, ruling class parties and the State. We should expose the
futility of reformism in solving the basic problems of the people and
place revolution as the alternative before the masses. Along with this
we should expose and isolate a section of leaders in the reformist
organizations who collaborate with the ruling classes and oppose
people’s movements. We should take a unity and struggle policy with the
reformist organizations even while giving priority to rallying the
masses in the broadest possible fronts to fight on their issues as part
of NDR in our country.
We should be careful in exposing such reformist organizations as
people get rallied into those organizations for their genuine demands
and those organizations fight to some extent (in reformist limits). We
should take the same stand regarding rallying various reformist
organizations into the broad anti-imperialist front in the world,
particularly against US imperialism. Only when Maoist forces remain at
the core of such broad fronts, they can advance towards achieving their
goal.Domestic situation
The domestic situation also underwent changes in consequence of the
changes in the international situation. As never before in the history
of Indian Parliament, a number of acts including those regarding food
security, land acquisition, company bill etc were enacted without almost
any objection from the opposition this year in a single session. Even
bills that have been pending since decades through various governments
were passed now without further ado. Majority of the restrictions
regarding imperialist penetration into our country that remained even
after accepting LPG policies in the 90s were lifted now with
unprecedented speed.
The rush with which these bills were passed with the full connivance
of the so-called opposition parties only shows how desperate the
imperialist masters and their agents ruling here are to come out of the
financial crisis that is looming over them. All these acts have the
single purpose of furthering the neo-liberal policies of the
imperialists that would deprive the people of Jal, Jungle, Zameen, Izzat
aur Adhikar (water, forest, land, self-respect and rights). The LA act
is a strategic offensive on our agrarian revolutionary program. The LA
act is a complete sell- out to the imperialists and the CBB as it will
facilitate indiscriminate acquisition of lands by corporate houses. It
concentrates all powers in the central government to hand over lands to
MNCs disregarding all name sake restrictions like FRA, clearance from
environment ministry, 5th and 6th schedules, PESA etc.
The new company law was passed as a complement to the other acts as
it has allowed foreign investments in hitherto restricted sectors and
permission to invest more capital than it was allowed in the past in
some sectors. It has further opened the doors for acquisition of Indian
companies by the MNCs. This would also threaten the existence of medium
and small scale companies with their increasing acquisition foreign and
domestic corporate houses. The food security act is ostensibly intended
to feed the poor and reduce malnutrition but in reality it would not
reach even a small percentage of the target.
The juggling of figures done in an extremely callous manner to show
that poverty decreased dramatically in our country has already paved the
way for sabotaging food security of the poor. With lakhs of farmers
committing suicide on the one hand and unemployment soaring among the
working population, every opportunity for genuine food security is
getting reduced rapidly. On the one hand the governments had been
continuously and gradually sabotaging the PDS system since decades and
now with this act the free market has been given a freer hand. This act
is exactly brought to cover up this actual reality and as an election
stunt.
Opening doors to more FDI had seriously affected the livelihood of
lakhs of hawkers. The parliament now passed the bill that ostensibly
protects their livelihood but which is in fact a legal action to cover
up the loss of livelihoods of hawkers by giving licenses to a few.
Diversion of pension money into the stock market with the new pension
act has now put in jeopardy even the meager guarantee that the senior
citizens had enjoyed. Disinvestment, opening of more and more sectors
and slices of the sectors to FDI are being carried on without even any
need of a parliamentary session to approve it. Along with all these the
changes in labor laws and making the laws more draconian for suppression
of movements have brought a significant change in this past year. Along
with the fundamental contradictions in the world the major
contradictions in our country are also intensifying.
In fact, all the contradictions are intensifying and this is leading
to all kinds of struggles in every sphere and by every oppressed class
and section of the society. While the MNCs are putting enormous pressure
on the Indian ruling classes to implement the MoUs signed with them,
the people are valiantly opposing their implementation braving all odds.
The reactionary Jayalalitha government in Tamil Nadu in collusion with
the center trampled the movement opposing the Kudankulam nuclear plant
and started work. The people are continuing their agitation. In Jaitapur
in Maharashtra, some NGOs withdrew the agitation after getting a
promise of increase in compensation. But the people are keeping the
struggle flag aloft. One after another the gram sabhas are rejecting
bauxite mining by Vedanta in Niyamgiri.
Though the Indian state ruthlessly suppressed the anti-POSCO
agitation in Odisha at gunpoint committing innumerable atrocities on the
agitators, they refused to surrender and are continuing to fight. In
DK, people of Bastar and Gadchiroli are still able to stop the mining
process and building of dams but with lot of sacrifices. Several of the
anti-mining and anti-dam activists were killed in fake encounters;
several of them were arrested and incarcerated in jails with dozens of
false cases foisted on them. Mining has started in Saranda after huge
military operations by adopting ‘clear, hold and build’ policy ‘to flush
out the Maoists’ which meant nothing but a series of all kinds of cruel
atrocities on the people of Saranda. Socio-economic, political measures
like MNREGA, food for work, right to education and health, right to
information, against atrocities on women, increase in minor forest
produce rates, Forest Rights Act have all proved their hollowness under
the UPA-1 & 2 leading to more and more people’s struggles on these
issues.
Our country witnessed a huge upsurge of mass protests deploring the
Delhi gang rape case of December 16, 2012. It once again led to a
wide-ranging discussion about the appalling conditions regarding women’s
safety in our country, the increasing violence on them in various forms
including state violence and the causes and solutions. The UPA
coordination committee and the CWC announced in July end that separate
Telangana state would be formed soon. This is a historic victory for the
fighting people of Telangana who have been agitating for separate
statehood since 60 years facing severe repression and several betrayals
by bourgeois parties.
Stating that Hyderabad would remain the common capital for ten years,
delay tactics under various pretexts for the formation on the one hand
and simultaneously inciting movements for united Andhra Pradesh in the
Seemandhra region on the other, all indicate that the people of
Telangana should brace up for another round of bitter struggle for the
actual realization of their demand for separate statehood. The granting
of separate statehood for Telangana gave a fillip to the agitations for
separate states in Asom and Gorkhaland in West Bengal. Though feebly
demands for dividing UP into four states and a separate Vidarbha state
have also been heard. A new upsurge in these agitations rocked those
regions for months. The central and Asom governments are carrying on a
carrot and stick policy regarding these agitations in Asom by conducting
talks with some of the organizations demanding separate statehood and
suppressing them on the other. Mamta Banerjee took a tough stand stating
that West Bengal would not be divided and is taking all steps to
suppress the agitation for separate Gorkhaland and Kamatapur.
As long as regional inequalities, imbalances and suppression of
nationalities continue, just agitations with national liberation
aspirations including separate statehood are bound to rise and advance
braving the severe repression of the Indian state. We should support,
participate and lead such agitations by concretely analyzing each and
every movement, as part of our NDR program. The BJP has finally
announced the mass murderer Modi as its PM candidate with RSS backing
and prodding, overcoming the severe dog fight inside the party for
power. BJP that tasted power in the past using the Hindutva agenda of
building the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and Muslim bashing is trying to
aggressively use the same card now with Modi in the lead. This would
make the next general elections more communal with the Hindutva goons
already trying to fan communal violence through various Parikramas and
attacks on Muslims like in Muzaffarnagar of UP.
They had already tried to incite communal violence in Hyderabad but
were unsuccessful – as yet. Though BJP and the saffron terrorists may
blatantly use the Hindu card, the people should not forget that Congress
has the shameless record of inciting the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 and
was behind several communal attacks on Muslims all over the country. The
Muzaffarnagar communal clashes between Jats and Muslims spread to some
more districts in western UP. Poor Muslims became the obvious victims
and these long drawn clashes once again blatantly revealed the Hindu
bias in all the parliamentary parties.
The SP that had posed as the champion of Muslims till now stands
exposed as it had not taken a tough stand on the Hindu rioters. With
BJP, Congress, SP and BSP party MLAs and leaders indicted for rioting,
the Muzaffarnagar clashes had left no parliamentary party unexposed. All
the parliamentary parties blamed each other for these clashes but the
actual fact is that all of them are responsible for this situation to
arise as every one of them behaved opportunistically keeping an eye on
the upcoming parliamentary elections in 2014.War on people and resistance
The OGH – war on people continued brutally in the past one year with
massacres of revolutionary masses and our comrades in our movement
areas. Once again the state targeted our leadership in open activities
with the intention of closing down any kind of mass activity and
building of solidarity to the PW we are waging. The imperialists have
increased tremendous pressure on the Indian ruling classes to implement
the various MoUs they had signed to loot and plunder our natural
resources. The compradors are resorting to ‘more repression and more
loot’ bending to their pressure and to overcome the now openly
acknowledged ‘bad shape of the Indian economy’.
The Jeeramghati attack was shown as an excuse for higher level
offensives on our movement but the actual reality is that preparations
were on the anvil long before this attack for OGH third phase.
Deployment of paramilitary personnel for forceful mining and
infrastructure development has increased manifold. Increase in
paramilitary battalions in Maoist areas, increase in spread of carpet
security, further allotment of drones and helicopters, usage of field
weapons like mortars and rockets, increase in communication towers,
intensification of psychological warfare and release of thousands of
crores of rupees for reforms including Civic Action Program and ‘skill
development’, rapid building of roads and other infrastructure are being
done on war-footing. All the above measures are concentrated especially
in tri and quadric-junctions of bordering states which are strategic
area of our movement.
The strategic role of the Indian army is increasing in waging the war
on people. Deployment of huge number of police, paramilitary forces and
army is very likely during the parliamentary elections and immediately
after their completion. The government is supplying higher capacity
drones to the CRPF that have till now been used only in the borders of
our country by the army. Along with this, formation of CoBRA battalions
is being made to turn it into the principal counter-insurgency force in
the country. Preparations are going on at a rapid pace for drone attacks
on movement areas. Extensive usage of helicopter gun ships had already
begun in non-combat operations (for logistics, transporting troops) and
also during attacks on villages.
The new helicopter unit at Nagpur was established in the name of
logistical support but they are to be used in offensives. Drones are to
be used extensively for intelligence gathering and also for attacking.
Since the launch of OGH from mid-2009 until now, led by our party the
PLGA and the revolutionary masses have fought it back bravely making
huge sacrifices and so it gained recognition as ‘war on people’ in our
country and abroad. The uncompromising anti-feudal and anti-imperialist
struggles waged by our party with agrarian revolutionary program at the
axis and anti-displacement struggles as an integral part of it have
attracted the attention of the people of our country further towards
Maoism as the solution and PPW as the path.
Even though the armed resistance of the nationality struggles in
Kashmir and north-east receded much, several mass agitations against
state atrocities and political movements with national liberation
aspirations are continuing. The main successes we achieved since our 8th
party anniversary are as follows: In spite of intensification and
expansion of the offensive of the ruling classes, on the whole we
sustained our movement in our relatively stronger guerilla zones by
keeping up our resistance basing on the strength of PLGA and mass base.
We carried on various tactical counter-offensives and inflicted
casualties to the enemy.
Since end September of last year till August 2013, in various big,
medium and small scale actions conducted by PLGA 110 policemen died,
more than 185 were injured. We have seized arms (nearly 70 weapons) and
ammunition from the state armed forces though not at previous levels. We
conducted five big actions, nearly a dozen medium size actions and
dozens of small actions in the past one year. The hollowness and
bankruptcy of the parliamentary system on the one hand and the brave
resistance of the PLGA and the fighting masses led by our party to the
lopsided development model of the pro-imperialist comprador ruling
classes on the other is increasingly attracting various sections of the
people who are becoming victims of this model towards Maoism.
This is a success we achieved both ideologically and politically.
People are mobilizing under our party’s leadership on several issues,
particularly against mining, displacement and big dams that have long
term ill-effects on the 6 future generations and ecology. Our efforts to
expand to some new areas and internally within the existing zones and
to keep the various guerilla zones connected are on. Various kinds of
mass struggles though at a local level were led by our party at area,
division/zonal and state levels. Our comrades are putting determined and
tireless efforts facing some of the toughest conditions that our
movement had ever faced in new areas of extension in the strategic
tri-junction area between Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
The state has unleashed severe repressive measures in Malnad and in
the tri-junction to nip our movement extension in the bud. Our party
fought back and exposed ideologically and politically the right
opportunist trends represented by Savyasachi Panda in Odisha and
Sriramulu Srinivasulu in AOB. We educated our party about the reasons
for such trends to arise and the need to fight them back. They had not
been able to influence any considerable section of our cadres. Only a
few cadres had left with Panda and our political efforts to make them
understand the right opportunist danger are on. Division and state level
plenums in AOB, divisional plenums and plenums of some higher level
military formations were held that helped their political and
organizational consolidation.
Some more efforts for political and organizational consolidation were
put and revolutionary propaganda continued in all our movement areas to
some extent. As part of our proletarian international tasks we took up a
solidarity campaign for the Philippines new democratic revolution and
propagated their glorious people’s war through several programs for one
week from April 22 to 28, 2013. With the Hamburg conference held in
November 2012 and the various international campaigns taken up in
support of our PW and against the OGH in several countries (both
imperialist and backward countries) international efforts to build
solidarity to our movement have consolidated further.
The selfless sacrifices of our beloved martyrs, our brave resistance
and leading of people’s struggles even amid unprecedented enemy
offensive and achieving some successes played a crucial role in the
further coming together of majority of the revolutionary and democratic
forces world to build this kind of a broad solidarity and support for
our NDR, in India and all over the world.Immediate Tasks
Our CC had assessed in the beginning of 2013 that from the point of
view of the subjective condition, the situation of our countrywide
movement is critical. It stated that at present all the major
contradictions inside the country and in the world are intensifying and
the objective conditions are turning more favorable to the revolution
but in terms of subjective condition the movement is facing critical
situation. In this backdrop let us take up the following tasks on the
9th anniversary of our party. We must take up these tasks to prepare our
party to overcome the present critical situation that the Indian
revolutionary movement is facing and to successfully advance the
movement. 1. Give foremost prominence to Bolshevize the party
Keeping in view the overall assessment of the objective and
subjective conditions and needs of the movement, our CC has decided to
take up a campaign for the Bolshevization of the party. The
Bolshevization of our party means –1. Understanding deeply and adhering firmly to MLM
and the general political line of our party; creatively applying MLM to
our concrete practice and firmly implementing our line; being unwavering
regarding our ideological and political line, establishing its
correctness and enriching it further by fighting against various
bourgeois ideologies2. Developing our party into a strong organization
that is well equipped with the correct ideological, political,
organizational and military line, that correctly practices democratic
centralism, that strictly implements discipline, that has mass
character, that steels itself in protracted people’s war, that is firm
in strategy and flexible in tactics. 3. Fighting against all kinds of right and left opportunist trends inside and outside the party 4. Honestly accepting our mistakes, shortcomings and weaknesses, correcting and avoiding those by learning from our practice5. Following class line and mass line and realizing
in practice the Marxist principle ‘People are the makers of history’ by
closely integrating with them and leading them. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
is our party’s ideology. Our party is molding itself ideologically and
educating the rank and file and the people with the same ideology, our
general political line and path of the revolution to successfully
complete the NDR as its immediate goal and achieving communism through
socialism as its ultimate goal.
It has built a people’s army (in the present level of the movement it
is PLGA), built united front in an embryonic form and is advancing the
people’s war to liberate the country with a strategic view. It is trying
to give efficient leadership to the revolution by coordinating the work
of people’s army and united front. But in the course of advancement of
the movement our party is suffering from various non-proletarian trends
and facing problems in sufficiently preparing the party, people’s army
and the masses according to the changing objective and subjective
conditions. These are hampering its advancement.
So we are not able to – preserve our subjective forces and
consolidate them further; protect our mass base and further expand and
consolidate it; consolidate PLGA and further expand and intensify the
guerrilla war; and fully utilize the increasingly favorable conditions
developing in our country and the world for revolution. So it is our
foremost task to further equip our party with the scientific ideology of
Marxism-Leninism- Maoism to raise our ideological and political level
in order to get rid of the non-proletarian trends and overcome these
weaknesses inside the party. This would help our party in correctly
understanding and analyzing the objective conditions in our country and
the world and the subjective condition of our movement by using the
theory of dialectical historical materialism and applying it as a
method.
We should apply the theory of MLM to the concrete objective
conditions of our country and to concrete revolutionary practice. Only
in this light we would understand anything correctly, take correct
decisions, implement them properly, integrate the party with the people,
mobilize people and build class struggle, improve our leadership work
methods and style of work, analyze and synthesize our practice
scientifically, learn lessons from our own experiences while correcting
the mistakes and errors that had occurred in practice, strengthen the
party and further advance the movement. The key to achieving this would
be the Bolshevization of our party.
The class composition of our party rank and file is predominantly
from peasantry and petty-bourgeois social class background, the
influence of bourgeois, petty-bourgeois and feudal outlook, notions,
culture, work methods and style of work are negatively impacting our
rank and file. So this Bolshevization should be a continuous process. To
successfully fulfill the multi-pronged tasks of the revolution we
should rally and organize the people politically and militantly into the
people’s war on a wide scale.
The foremost ideological task that we would have to fulfill to
achieve this is to categorically convince the people that the root cause
for all their problems lie in the social conditions prevalent under
this semi-colonial and semi-feudal exploitative system, and the
reactionary pro-imperialist, pro-CBB and pro-landlord policies
implemented by the ruling classes; that they will not be liberated
unless this system is smashed by uniting all democratic classes and
social sections under the leadership of the proletarian vanguard party –
the CPI (Maoist). Then the people would get mobilized into socio,
economic and political movements.
The party would have to build its ranks among the organized masses
and expand the movement all over the country step by step and thus
advance the people’s war towards victory. For this – Proletarian
discipline ensures the ideological, political and organizational unity
of the party that is the precondition to firmly implement our general
political line, policies and decisions that come from above at every
level. So we must see to it that disciplinary principles and standing
orders are implemented to enhance the level of proletarian discipline in
our party, PLGA and party fractions. The leadership should lead from
the front in bringing significant change in their daily life in matters
of discipline. To encourage implementation of discipline with
revolutionary spirit we must give special attention to education about
communist ideals, values and culture.
Concrete rectification campaigns where and when necessary, review of
our practice and of decisions in every meeting and deep criticism –
self-criticism should be taken up as the means to get rid of
non-proletarian trends like subjectivism, spontaneity, liberalism,
sectarianism, bureaucracy, patriarchy etc that are prevalent at various
levels, at various degrees and in various forms in our party. To succeed
in these campaigns we should pay special attention to ideological,
political, military and organizational education/training and to review
of concrete practice at every level including at individual level.
Comrades should strive to bring a revolutionary transformation in their
style of functioning and life style.
This means that we should work or fulfill every revolutionary task
with Bolshevik spirit and efficiency amidst the countless odds that we
face in practice. Achieving this kind of work style should become the
aim of every comrade. Right opportunist and post-modernist trends are
cropping up in our party in some places. The danger of such trends
arising would be present particularly at this juncture when the
offensive of the ruling classes on our movement is increasing and our
movement is facing a critical situation.
The entire party from the highest to the lowest levels must be
extremely alert towards these trends and fight them back.
Simultaneously, where sectarian and bureaucratic trends are prevalent in
our mass work, in party relations with masses and in internal relations
in our party our mass base is weakening and party unity is getting
damaged at various degrees. We must also struggle against sectarian and
bureaucratic trends and rectify them. The experiences of our party in
internal struggles/two-line struggles and rectification campaigns should
be studied by all for this purpose.
The leadership should plan to stay with the lower level cadres in the
field to guide them in understanding and solving the concrete problems
faced in the course of our movement. This means understanding the
changing concrete social, economic, political and cultural conditions,
the changing concrete conditions of the movement, changes in the enemy
strategy and tactics in the multi-pronged offensive as part of
implementing the counter- revolutionary LIC policy of the imperialists
and all reactionaries world over, etc. The leadership should pay special
attention to concretely applying the Bolshevization process during this
field training period.
We should avoid unnecessary losses of leadership and subjective
forces at all levels. Preserving our subjective forces, particularly the
leadership, is one of the foremost tasks before us. We must review our
past mistakes and the weaknesses prevailing at present which has led to
such a large number of severe losses of our forces from top to bottom.
One major reason for the present condition of the movement is the
failure in preserving our subjective forces, particularly the
leadership. It is not only very difficult to successfully Bolshevize our
party or fulfill any other task without preserving the present forces.
We should put all efforts to develop secondary leadership at all levels
in a planned manner.
Simultaneously we should expand the party with new members. In our
country the casteist, religious and imperialist cultures are damaging
the fighting spirit of the people. They are not only negatively
impacting the people but are also penetrating into our subjective forces
in various degrees and numbing their revolutionary consciousness. One
of the reasons for the decadence of new democratic and communist values
in the party and the PLGA is this. We should develop new democratic
culture and values and socialist culture and values particularly inside
the party, the PLGA and in all revolutionary mass organizations and RPCs
and in general in people to counter this danger.
The revolutionary cultural sphere should be strengthened to fight
back the degenerate feudal and imperialist cultures. Our cultural
organizations should take up appropriate forms and play a crucial role
in developing revolutionary culture. Study, political classes and
lectures relating to cultural matters should be taken up vigorously as a
part of Bolshevizing our party. Committees should pay attention to
distributing the available revolutionary literature among the cadres.
These cultural and literary efforts should become an integral part of
the ideological, political and cultural work that every committee takes
up. The leadership comrades should deliver short and inspiring speeches
to motivate whenever our troops meet or disperse and during various
training camps and meetings. They should ensure that our ranks in all
spheres are always filled with revolutionary enthusiasm and spirit.
We should Bolshevize the party increase the confidence on the
leadership from the ranks and the people and on the entire party from
the people. This should boost up confidence in the entire party and the
people to boldly face the current critical situation of the movement, to
rectify non-proletarian trends, to resolve problems and to overcome any
number of odds to march towards victory. When the entire party gets
Bolshevized it would also develop confidence among the people that by
correcting the mistakes that had occurred in our understanding and in
practice and by learning from our own invaluable experience gained by
spilling a lot of blood – our party and the PLGA would expand and
strengthen and provide capable leadership; our movement would expand
countrywide; we would be able to establish base areas and lead our
revolution to victory. 2. Let us strengthen and expand our mass base by adhering firmly to class line and mass line
Weakening of the mass base is one of the main reasons for the
critical situation that our countrywide revolutionary movement is
presently facing. The movement is continuing at different levels in
different parts of the country and consequently there is difference in
the extent of the mass base. The enemy offensive is intensifying on RPCs
and various mass organizations all over the country. It has been more
than three decades since several organizations have been banned by the
central and state governments. Tens of thousands of revolutionary and
democratic mass organization leaders and members have been assassinated,
tortured and put in jails.
Booked under false cases many of them are facing harsh punishments.
Massacres, gang rapes, loot and destruction by armed forces have become
the order of the day. The aim of the ruling classes behind such severe
repressive measures is to isolate us from the people and dent our mass
base. So our tactics should be aimed at uniting the vast masses against
the enemy, isolating the main enemy and using the contradictions between
the enemies. These tactics should help us in mobilizing the people
politically on a wider scale and consolidating them. We should strive to
preserve our leadership forces in the central, state and local MOs and
RPCs.
Following our general political line we should give priority to
politically mobilize the working class, landless and poor peasants. We
should put all efforts to rally the middle peasants and urban petty
bourgeoisie. The worldwide financial crisis is negatively impacting the
rich peasantry and the national bourgeoisie who are a part of the
four-class alliance. So the time is more favorable to bring to the fore
their demands too. According to their attitude towards the people and
PW, we must take up tactics that would win over a section of these
classes, make a section at least neutral and isolate the other. We
should pay particular attention to forming appropriate united front
forums on various issues that would bring together revolutionary and
democratic organizations, forces and individuals.
When the ruling classes are resorting to all kinds of conspiracies
and fascist offensives to isolate us from the people, friendly
organizations and forces, our practice should be centered on integrating
with them further. In all our strategic areas we should widen our mass
base and build, consolidate and expand the RPCs with the aim of
establishing base areas. We should overcome our shortcomings in uniting
the vast masses against the decadent ruling system, in forming
appropriate united front forums, establishing party leadership in them
and in expanding them. The various kinds of mistakes we are making in
integrating with the people and in implementing mass line and class line
should be corrected.
We should get rid of sectarian and bureaucratic attitudes while
working among the people. These trends are not only isolating us from
them but also hampering their initiative. We should strictly avoid any
wrong political and military actions that would harm the interests of
the people. We should carry on criticism and self-criticism sessions and
education and rectification campaigns not only inside the party but
also in MOs to correct sectarian, bureaucratic and other wrong trends.
The mainstay of our propaganda at this juncture should be against the
unjust nature of the OGH and the just nature of our PW. This should be
based on the premise that this enemy offensive is against democracy,
progress, peace and the interests of all the oppressed classes and
social sections and that the OGH is being waged to serve the interests
of the imperialists, CBB and the landlords.
The main direction of our agitations should be towards mobilizing
people on land and displacement issues. We must put efforts to carry on
our propaganda and agitations around the countless issues that are
thrown up due to the intensifying worldwide financial crisis. Where
people are agitating on these issues we should try to support, intervene
and lead them. We should take up agitations and propaganda on various
political, social, cultural and ecological issues. Maoist political
prisoners alone number more than ten thousand while the number of
political prisoners from north-east, Kashmir and other democratic
movements would be several thousands more. More than ninety percent of
these prisoners are common people.
They are languishing in various prisons of our country and facing
severe inhuman conditions and lack of any kind of rights. So we have to
give utmost priority to build movements for their unconditional release
and solidarity movements for their struggles inside prisons.
Simultaneously, all efforts should be put to provide legal aid for their
early release. Agitations for civil liberties, against state repression
on mass movements and against draconian laws should be taken up on a
wide scale. We should put extra efforts to strengthen the civil
liberties movement. Wide propaganda about genuine democracy and NDR that
alone can ensure civil liberties should be carried on hand in hand.
We should continuously expose the fake reform programs that are aimed
to isolate us from the people. We should mobilize the people in class
struggles, take up revolutionary land reforms, consistently carry on
political work among the masses and consolidate them. Without this
process it would be difficult for the people to realize the sham nature
of these reforms. Ideologically and politically we must counter-point
the fake development model of the ruling classes and the people oriented
genuine development model that we are advocating. We should convince
them that repression and fake reforms are the two aspects of the same
carrot and stick policy. Practically we should deal with the people in a
democratic manner and convince them that we are the firm supporters and
fighters for their welfare and liberation and are not against their
welfare.
Simultaneously as an integral part of class struggle we should deal
without any lenience with the class enemies and those elements that act
as ruling class agents and consciously try to divert the people towards
these fake reforms. Regarding government reforms our tactics may vary
depending on the consciousness of the people and strength of our
movement in a particular area but our policy and direction would not
change. Our counter- tactics should be aimed at uniting the people,
preventing a social base from being formed for the ruling class parties
and raising the revolutionary consciousness of the people and mobilizing
them into the PW that alone can achieve genuine reforms.
We should fight back strongly the psychological operations of the
enemy that are aimed at spreading ideological and political confusions
among the people and weaning them away from our movement. Revolutionary
propaganda to counter the enemy false propaganda should be wide,
creative and in various forms. We should utilize every opportunity to
expose the sham of the parliamentary system. We should never suggest the
election path as a solution at any level or under any pretext. We
should firmly oppose any attempts at lobbying instead of mobilizing
people and depending on their strength for resolution of any kind of
problem. As part of mass work we should activate all the mass
organizations at all levels and guide them to function regularly. Mass
work and armed resistance should go hand in hand. All the political,
organizational and military tasks should be fulfilled in coordination
with the sole aim of defeating the OGH and advancing the movement.
In areas of carpet security we must give utmost priority to adopting
suitable forms of party and guerilla formations and suitable forms of
struggle. We should give special attention to the selection of cadre and
their politico-military training. We should correct the shortcomings
occurring in our methods of functioning in these carpet security areas
by implementing strict secret methods of functioning. Even while giving
priority to secret mass organizations we should build various broad
based united front forums according to the concrete conditions of that
area and movement to mobilize the vast masses. In all the movement areas
we must intensify anti-imperialist, anti-feudal struggles based on the
agrarian revolutionary program.
Though we are taking up struggles there are severe shortcomings since
a long time in continuing them consistently. Other important
shortcomings are – not consolidating the forces that emerge from these
struggles, not establishing our leadership in UF forums and not
developing proper methods for legal-illegal coordination. These
shortcomings should be rectified. In this class struggle we should not
confine ourselves to secret and illegal activities. We should carry on
broad-based UF activities that would rally the various oppressed classes
and social sections. In UF activities there is lot of significance to
establishing our leadership, preserving our independence and advancing
by basing on our own strength. We should utilize both open and secret
forms of organization and struggle.
In UF forums we should always adhere to democratic methods and avoid
any kind of sectarianism and bureaucracy. We should expose and fight
with such tendencies that may arise from other organizations and forces
in these forums. We should pay attention to mobilizing the support and
solidarity of vast masses particularly that of intellectuals and
democratic elements as it is very crucial for the fighting people and
organizations. We should strive to turn struggles into political
struggles against the state. The advanced elements that come to the fore
in mass movements should be consolidated and developed as its
leadership to expand and strengthen our mass base. Selected capable
elements should be prepared and sent to work in rural areas and in the
people’s army. The leadership of revolutionary mass organizations and
our party fractions in MOs should work with this understanding. 3. Advance the armed agrarian revolutionary war by consolidating the PLGA and fighting back the enemy offensive
As a part of Bolshevizing the entire party, the Bolshevization of the
party inside PLGA should be done with the aim of enhancing its
ideological, political, organizational and military levels. Thus we
would be able to improve the understanding and fighting ability of the
PLGA. We should help the PLGA forces to increase their fighting ability
and the commissions and commands to improve their commanding ability by
helping them to constantly study the changes occurring in
counter-insurgency and counter-guerilla warfare, in identifying the
weaknesses of the enemy and in fighting back the enemy offensive basing
on this.
The ideological and political levels of the party committees from top
to bottom in the PLGA should be enhanced. They should be given special
education on political and military tactics that are to be followed
during ebbs and flows. The fighting ability of the PLGA should be
enhanced by implementing the consolidation program in the regional,
state and lower level forces. The party committees inside the PLGA
should rise to the level of independently running their units and
fighting back the military tactics of the enemy forces on their own by
studying the changing conditions in social, economic, political,
cultural and military spheres and modifying the present tactics or
formulating new ones. We should carry on guerilla warfare in all areas
where guerilla forces are present depending on our strength and needs of
the movement.
We should strive to bring improvement in our TCOCs and
counter-offensives. We should study deeply the weaknesses of the enemy.
The leadership should lead the forces in TCOCs and resistance actions.
The role of the people’s militia and the people should be increased in
military actions. We should prevent our losses during armed
confrontations. Guerilla principles and discipline should be strictly
adhered to in all PLGA activities. We should train up the people’s
militia to increase its role in resisting the enemy. We should strive to
increase the number of people’s militia units. The people’s militia
should be armed with the weapons available. As the numbers in almost all
combat units in PLGA have come down, we should try to fill the vacant
places by gradually increasing recruitment. Our guerilla warfare should
be aimed at defeating the enemy offensive concentrated on our strategic
areas.
Guerilla warfare should be carried on by seizing arms and ammunition
from the enemy and fully utilizing other sources. Mine warfare should be
intensified and extended by involving the people’s militia and the
people in large numbers. The enemy forces are conducting
information-based attacks basing on their informer network. We should
bring changes in our work methods to avoid losses in such attacks and
also in the backdrop of carpet security. We should not get trapped in
the offensives and campaigns of the enemy conducted with brigade,
battalion or somewhat lesser forces and try to move away from that area.
From there we should identify the weak position of the enemy and try
to inflict damages as far as possible. Every unit should put up
resistance according to its strength and level. If any one of our units
gets encircled/trapped in such campaigns, it should put up a united
fight as a single unit and try to get out by breaching the enemy lines.
Campaigns should be taken up to expose the counseling and surrender
policies of the enemy. We should consistently carry on the propaganda
that surrender is not only harmful to the interests of the people and
the party but is also treachery. We should meet the families of all
party activists and PLGA fighters working in different spheres in the
same state or in other states, enquire about their problems and extend
the possible moral, economic and material support to them by involving
the people.
They should be educated about the deceptive nature of enemy
counseling and surrender policy. We should conduct meetings in villages
to expose the dangers posed by the surrendered counter-revolutionaries
and the ill-effects of counseling programs of the enemy. In these
meetings we should make them realize the importance of people’s
vigilance on such betrayers. The police/state informer networks should
be checked. Alertness, mobility, swiftness and secrecy are very crucial
in guerilla warfare. Without alertness, mobility and swiftness it is not
possible to maintain secrecy for any guerilla unit. Guerilla forces
should always stay alert, be mobile, move swiftly and maintain secrecy.
Secrecy is paramount both for defense and offense.4. Prepare for the 10th Anniversary celebrations of Party Formation
It would be ten years since the formation of CPI (Maoist) by
September 21, 2014. Our CC has decided to celebrate this occasion on a
grand scale all over the country. On this occasion, we should publish
special issues of party, military and other organs. A year long new
enrolment campaign should be taken up to expand the party. Our
preparations to fulfill these tasks should begin now. We should fully
utilize this occasion to place before the party, PLGA, mass
organizations, RPCs and the masses the successes and the positive and
negative experiences achieved by the new party in various spheres; the
tasks before us to advance the movement and educate them.
Comrades, Though our countrywide revolutionary movement is facing a
critical situation, there are several differences in the social
conditions in various states and in our subjective conditions therein.
So our tasks in various states should be formulated keeping these
conditions in view. Our tactics, methods of work and style of work
should also be formulated accordingly. They should be creatively
implemented. Keeping in view the changes occurring in the course of the
movement and in the situation in the world and in our country, we must
make the necessary and timely changes in them. We would be able to
utilize the favorable objective conditions well by working with
Bolshevik spirit and political initiative.
These are very much necessary for the preservation of subjective
forces, to fight back the enemy forces and to build guerilla bases with
the aim of establishing base areas. Lack of Bolshevik spirit and
political initiative would lead to deterioration of the movement and
petty bourgeois impetuosity would lead to losses. So in all the states
and areas our party committees should come to a correct assessment
about the actual objective and subjective conditions and formulate the
tasks. Appropriate methods of work should be formulated and applied
creatively to rally the party, PLGA, mass organizations and the people
actively in a planned manner to fulfill these tasks. Every task should
be implemented from the beginning till the end with determination and
initiative. Only thus can we overcome the critical situation in all
states, areas and all over the country and create the conditions for
achieving higher and newer successes.
On the occasion of the 9th anniversary celebrations of our party
formation, our CC calls upon the entire party, PLGA, mass organizations
and RPCs to work with determination to complete the above tasks to
fulfill the dreams of our beloved martyrs.Let us Bolshevize our party so that it can efficiently wield
the two basic weapons of People’s Army and United Front and lead the
revolution to victory. Let us expand and strengthen our mass base adhering firmly to class line and mass line. Let us grasp in depth the two Marxist principles – ‘No
revolution without a revolutionary party’ and ‘People are the makers of
history’. Grasping the true meaning of these guiding principles and
implementing them in practice would help us tide over the critical
situation we are facing at present. Let us thus raise the levels of ideological and political
consciousness of the vast masses, build and consolidate wide ranging
movements and fight with determination to bring about a notable turn in
our revolutionary movement. Let us thus advance towards the fulfillment of our share of the tasks of proletarian internationalism.
Comrades, Celebrate the 9th anniversary of our party with
revolutionary enthusiasm in all our guerilla zones and in all areas
where our party units are present. Utilize this occasion to fill the
cadres and the people with the determination to participate with spirit
in the Bolshevization campaign we are taking up as the foremost task.
Let us march forward for fulfilling all our other tasks by learning
from the masses. Let us remember the selfless sacrifices of our great
martyrs one more time to imbibe their ideals that would guide us in
overcoming the critical situation we are facing.With Revolutionary Greetings Central Committee CPI (Maoist) Date: September 1, 2013